Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Honor, a leading home care company, as a Platform Engineer. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems and infrastructure, building and managing the core services powering Honor's Care Platform. This highly technical role requires extensive experience in cloud platforms, software design, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring reliable and efficient service delivery. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills, a strategic mindset, and a passion for mentorship. This is a remote-first position offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company
• Thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers
• Possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems & infrastructure
• Build and manage the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform
• Provide foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently
• Own build and deployment pipelines of our services
• Maintain various environments and their supporting infrastructure
• Serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems
• Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups
• Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Automate the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management
• Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
• Define, instrument and measure standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value
• Deliver turn-key developer experience for local development
• Develop talent through mentorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with an RPC architecture
• Work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
• First hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns

Benefits

• Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
• Competitive salary
• Equity in the company
• Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Employer-matched 401(k)
• Flexible PTO (manager approval)
• Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team
• Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses
• Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option
• We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program